When the image is new, the world is new.
GASTON BACHELARDEvery corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
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Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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